Tas. 6454. 
PSYCHOTRIA JASMINIFLORA. 
Native of South Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Rupracex.—Tribe PsycHoTRIEZ. 
Genus Psycnortria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 123.) 
Psycnortria (Eupsychotria) jasminiflora; fruticosa, ramulis teretibus, foliis breviter 
petiolatis oblongis acutis basi rotundatis v. subcordatis coriaceis, stipulis parvis 
in vaginam intrapetiolarem connatis setosis persistentibus, pedunculis termi- 
nalibus et axillaribus, cymis paucifloris breviter paniculatis, calycis glabri 
limbo tubuloso inzequaliter breviter 4-lobo, corolle villosse tubo gracili elongato, 
fauce paullo ampliata, lobis 4-oblongis obtusis, filamentis glabris, antheris 
exsertis. 
GuonERria jasminiflora, Lind. & André, Ill. Hortic. vol. xviii. p.76, t.60; Benth. 
et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 51, et. 1228. 
The genus Gloneria, which was founded upon this plant, 
must have originated in some curious misconception, the 
zstivation of the corolla being described as contorted, the 
ovules as numerous, inserted on fleshy placentas in each 
cell, and the leaves as tomentose beneath. When describing 
the genus for the “ Genera Plantarum,” I had access to no 
specimens, and gave the description under the authority of 
its founders, applying, however, to my friend Mr. Linden 
for some flowers from his rich garden. The plants, how- 
ever, were not then in flower, but he subsequently obligingly 
gave me some, which enabled me to refer the genus Gloneria 
to Psychotria, as stated in the “‘ Addenda and Corrigenda ” 
to the same volume of the ‘‘ Genera Plantarum.” _ 
Though undoubtedly a Psychotria, this species 1s very 
different from any other of that immense genus, and so 
closely resembles in habit, form of corollas, texture of the 
leaves, and other characters, a Coussarea, that but for the 
_two cells of the ovary with thick dissepiments between 
them, I should have been disposed to refer it to that genus. 
Indeed, I think that this plant renders it questionable 
OCTOBER Ist, 1879. 
